How strangers agree on where to meet without talking

Thomas Schelling showed that when people can't coordinate directly, they often converge on the same choice anyway by picking whatever option feels most obvious or prominent. Asked where they'd meet a stranger in New York with no way to communicate, his students overwhelmingly answered noon at the information booth in Grand Central Terminal.

— Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict — Chapter 3, Harvard University Press, 1960
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